Its your own fault you bought the wal mart distro. that is old news. If you
want a book goto amazon.com
----- Original Message -----
From: John Arkoulis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 2:57 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] bone to pick with Macmillan
> Well it does not mean that we should accept everything that is thrown at
us.
> The Wall Mart move was bad. Period.
> And I am bitching about it because I do not want Linux to follow the
example
> of the empire.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "TimD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2000 7:32 AM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] bone to pick with Macmillan
>
>
> > I think you all need to stop bitchen.
> > This is Linux. Not Windows. Overcome, adapt and improvise.
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wednesday 15 November 2000 08:26, you wrote:
> > > Hey, I am a bit peeved. When mandrake 7.2 came out, I went and
> > > downloaded the ISOs. I got DSL and CDburner so it was easy.
> > > Well, being a newbie, I wanted to get a manual or something, and
> > > heard that if you buy a distro, it comes with extra CDs of apps and
> > > stuff, and of course a manual. So I wanted support and all these
things.
> > > Well I went to Wal-mart and bought Mandrake 7.2 Complete Retail
> > > box version since it had 4 CDs and manual.
> > > I take home and install. Then I started having a few quirks and
> problems,
> > > of course I did mandrake update to update the prerelease version of
> > > kde to final 2.0 version, and other stufff.
> > > Well, still had a few quirks. I missed my Webmin tool from 7.1 and
> > > I missed a few networking tools from 7.1 but alas they were no where
> > > to be found on the walmart distro. I was quite perturbed and
> disheartened.
> > > Finally late last night I went and viewed my downloaded ISOs of
> > > 7.2, and FOUND WEBMIN and MORE STUFF on the downloaded version!!
> > > So, since my walmart distro was not quite right, I took a chance and
> > > installed afresh the downloaded 7.2. NO MORE prerelease kde!!!
> > > I had hardly any updates necessary!! I got more networking stuff,
> > > everything seems to be running better!! The downloaded version is MUCH
> > > better. I am definitely PEEVED that I spent $$ for the walmart version
> and
> > > would like to know if there is a way to contact macmillan since I
think
> > > they are misleading people about the retail box version!!
> > > I am just an inquiring "newbie" mind, saying my rant.
> > > susan
> >
> >
>
>
